Director Andrew V. Mclaglen has died at the age of 94. The son of former professional boxer and Academy Award-winning actor Victor McLaglen passed away on Saturday (30Aug14) at his home in Washington.
McLaglen worked with John Wayne on five films including McLintock! and The Undefeated and James Stewart on four including The Rare Breed and Bandolero!.
He also directed Doris Day and Peter Graves in The Ballad of Josie, Kirk Douglas in The Way West and Dean Martin in Something Big.
In addition to his film work, McLaglen directed several TV shows including Gunsmoke, Rawhide and Perry Mason.

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Great talk with James Murray (or as you may know him, Murr), easily one of the funniest pranksters on TV! We chat about humiliation, touring, getting thrown out of a plane and what it's like to have a hit TV show with 3 of your best friends!
You have been doing this for years. Do you still feel embarrassed during some of the punishments?
We get embarrassed daily! We're not strong men, we scare easily. The most embarrassed I've been recently was when the other Jokers made me nude model in front of a dozen strangers in an art class as they drew my naked, nude, clotheless body with no clothes on it.
You recently had Imagine Dragons on and performed a punishment on stage at their concert. Tell us about it.
We're huge fans of Imagine Dragons! It was a funny story how it all came about. We were filming last year in Washington Square Park, and totally randomly, their manager was walking through the park with his family. As soon as he saw us, he came up to say what big fans the band was of Impractical Jokers. That's how we all met and became friends. So when we heard they were performing at Jones Beach, it seemed like the perfect punishment for Joe and Sal. It was probably the coolest / scariest thing we've ever gotten to do on the show, and the band is amazing!
Speaking of big moments, can you tell us about Rosie O’Donnell pranking Q.
We've been joking for 3 seasons now that Q looks like Rosie O'Donnell. They really could be brother and sister. Rosie was a fan of the show, and tweeted us about the uncanny resemblance. A few secret tweets and phone calls later, she agreed to make a surprise guest appearance on the show to punish Q. He had no idea that she was going to walk in the room as his twin, it was perfect!
Favorite and least favorite punishment:
My favorite punishment was when we broke into Sal's house while he was away on vacation and seriously f**ked with his home. My least favorite is coming up in Season 3 - the guys threw me out of a damn plane from 15,000 feet, even though I am deathly afraid of dying to death.
Do you get recognized when filming pranks?
Sometimes, but there are so many people in NYC, that we manage it well. In season 3, we're actually shooting a few episodes in other states, like Texas and Georgia. It will be interesting to see what happens!
Your comedy troupe, The Tenderloins, tours all over the U.S. How is the crowd reaction?
We love the live tour so much. It gives us a chance to see the impact that Impractical Jokers has on people. The fan response continues to overwhelm and amaze us - they know every line from the show, they wear Larry shirts, they make posters and chant "Let's Get Sexy". It's awesome.
What can we expect to see on future episodes?
The punishments are getting bigger and better, we're hoping to have a few more surprise celebrity cameos this season, we'll be doing episodes this season in Texas, Atlanta and Atlantic City, and of course, lots more hilarious embarrassment for us!
The show has done very well. You have a lot of loyal viewers. What do you think draws people to it?
I think people really relate to our friendship. We've been best friends since Freshman year of high school, know everything about each other, and love to make each other laugh. We have so much fun making the TV show, and I think that comes across on screen. People always say they have friends just like us. And Joe shouting LARRY!! is just damn funny.
Craving more? 'Impractical Jokers: The Complete First Season' DVDwill be available on Nov. 26, 2013.
The DVD will include all 17 episodes from the first season as well as commentary from Q, Sal, Joe and Murr, behind-the-scenes features and deleted scenes.
For Impractical Jokers tour dates, visit their comedy troupe website www.TheTenderloins.com.
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From Asia to Canada to the United States Celina Jade has certainly made a name for herself. Celina gives us an exclusive interview on what her summer in Hong Kong was like, how her music has shaped and is continuing to shape her, and what is in the works for The CW’s Arrow and her character, Shado.
You just spent the summer in Hong Kong working on Good Morning Hong Kong. Tell us a little bit about that.
I went back to HK during the hiatus and was cast to play the leading lady in a rock &amp; roll original musical Good Morning HK. It was really fun. I went from fight, fight, fight to sing, sing, sing. I don’t think I’d ever sung so much in my life.
It has been almost a year since the independent release of your first self-written album. In retrospect, how do you feel about the release and the songs on the album?
I’m glad I took the leap to release my album independently. I was sitting on it for a while. It was difficult finding a label to represent me who was willing to work hand-in-hand with my managers, who I have no interest in leaving, because labels now-a-days want to own you (sadly it’s so hard to make money with music now). Despite this, I decided it wasn’t going to stop me from doing what I love. I have since placed my songs in TV/film projects I’m involved in, and I’m content with that.
How does it feel to be filming the 2nd season of Arrow? Do you feel a deeper connection now with Shado?
I do actually. A lot has happened to Shado since she arrived at the island… especially with Yao Fei’s death, there’s a real reality check there. I think the gravity of the situation has forced her to realize that every moment counts because it could be her last. That in turn affects every decision she makes, whether it’s a decision of survival or a decision of love. I do think that I have Shado’s spirit within me.
Arrow is based on a comic book. Did you read the comics before auditioning?
I confess I didn’t read the Green Arrow comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction though. I think there’s a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!
What do you think has made Arrow so successful?
I think the writing, directing, the cast, the fights and the fans make the show successful. Everyone wants to see a regular person find the hero within him or her to do justice for humanity. What’s that Mariah Carey song? – ‘Hero’. J I wonder if Shado will ever burst out into that song to Oliver. Haha JK.
Can you give us any sneak peeks of what to expect from this season on Arrow?
I can give you a sneak peek into the Island! After the hiatus, 5 months passed, and we see that Oliver and Shado’s relationship has developed. But this relationship’s effects on the team are questioned as a threat arrives… Pirates.
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There is something particularly unnerving about demon possession. It's the idea of something you can't see or control creeping into your body and taking up residence eventually obliterating all you once were and turning you into nothing more than a sack of meat to be manipulated. Then there's also the shrouded ritual around exorcisms: the Latin chants the flesh-sizzling crucifixes and the burning Holy Water. As it turns out exorcism isn't just the domain of Catholics.
The myths and legends of the Jews aren't nearly as well known but their creepy dybbuk goes toe-to-toe with anything other world religions come up with. There are various interpretations of what a dybbuk is or where it comes from — is it a ghost a demon a soul of a sinner? — but in any case it's looking for a body to hang out in for a while. Especially according to the solemn Hasidic Jews in The Possession an innocent young person and even better a young girl.
The central idea in The Possession is that a fancy-looking wooden box bought at a garage sale was specifically created to house a dybbuk that was tormenting its previous owner. Unfortunately it caught the eye of young Emily (Natasha Calis) a sensitive artistic girl who persuades her freshly divorced dad Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan of Watchmen and Grey's Anatomy) to buy it for her. Never mind the odd carvings on it — that would be Hebrew — or how it's created without seams so it would be difficult to open or why it's an object of fascination for a young girl; Clyde is trying really hard to please his disaffected daughters and do the typical freshly divorced parent dance of trying to please them no matter the cost.
Soon enough the creepy voices calling to Emily from the box convince her to open it up; inside are even creepier personal objects that are just harbingers of what's to come for her her older sister Hannah (Madison Davenport) her mom Stephanie (Kyra Sedgwick) and even Stephanie's annoying new boyfriend Brett (Grant Show). Clyde and Stephanie squabble over things like pizza for dinner and try to convince each other and themselves that Emily's increasingly odd behavior is that of a troubled adolescent. It's not of course and eventually Clyde enlists the help of the son of a Hasidic rabbi a young man named Tzadok played by the former Hasidic reggae musician Matisyahu to help them perform an exorcism on Emily.
The Possession is not going to join the ranks of The Exorcist in the horror pantheon but it does do a remarkable job of making its characters intelligent and even occasionally droll and it offers up plenty of chills despite a PG-13 rating. Perhaps it's because of that rating that The Possession is so effective; the filmmakers are forced to make the benign scary. Giant moths and flying Torahs take the place of little Reagan violently masturbating with a crucifix in The Exorcist. Gagging and binging on food is also an indicator of Emily's possession — an interesting twist given the anxieties of becoming a woman a girl Emily's age would face. There is something inside her controlling her and she knows it and she is fighting it. The most impressive part of Calis's performance is how she communicates Emily's torment with a few simple tears rolling down her face as the dybbuk's control grows. The camerawork adds to the anxiety; one particularly scary scene uses ordinary glass kitchenware to great effect.
The Possession is a short 92 minutes and it does dawdle in places. It seems as though some of the scenes were juggled around to make the PG-13 cut; the moth infestation scene would have made more sense later in the movie. Some of the problems are solved too quickly or simply and yet it also takes a while for Clyde's character to get with it. Stephanie is a fairly bland character; she makes jewelry and yells at Clyde for not being present in their marriage a lot and then there's a thing with a restraining order that's pretty silly. Emily is occasionally dressed up like your typical horror movie spooky girl with shadowed eyes an over-powdered face and dark clothes; it's much more disturbing when she just looks like an ordinary though ill young girl. The scenes in the heavily Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn look oddly fake and while it's hard to think of who else could have played Tzadok an observant Hasidic Jew who is also an outsider willing to take risks the others will not Matisyahu is not a very good actor. Still the filmmakers should be commended for authenticity insofar as Matisyahu has studied and lived as a Hasidic Jew.
It would be cool if Lionsgate and Ghost House Pictures were to release the R-rated version of the movie on DVD. What the filmmakers have done within the confines of a PG-13 rating is creepy enough to make me curious to see the more adult version. The Possession is no horror superstar and its name is all too forgettable in a summer full of long-gestating horror movies quickly pushed out the door. It's entertaining enough and could even find a broader audience on DVD. Jeffrey Dean Morgan can read the Old Testament to me any time.

Widening the thematic scope without sacrificing too much of the claustrophobia that made the original 1979 Alien universally spooky Prometheus takes the trophy for this summer's most adult-oriented blockbuster entertainment. The movie will leave your mouth agape for its entire runtime first with its majestic exploration of an alien planet and conjectures on the origins of the human race second with its gross-out body horror that leaves no spilled gut to the imagination. Thin characters feel more like pawns in Scott's sci-fi prequel but stunning visuals shocking turns and grand questions more than make up for the shallow ensemble. "Epic" comes in many forms. Prometheus sports all of them.
Based on their discovery of a series of cave drawings all sharing a similar painted design Elizabeth (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie (Logan Marshall-Green) are recruited by Weyland to head a mission to another planet one they believe holds the answers to the creation of life on Earth. Along for the journey are Vickers (Charlize Theron) the ruthless Weyland proxy Janek (Idris Elba) a blue collar captain a slew of faceless scientists and David (Michael Fassbender) HAL 9000-esque resident android who awakens the crew of spaceship Prometheus when they arrive to their destination. Immediately upon descent there's a discovery: a giant mound that's anything but natural. The crew immediately prepares to scope out the scene zipping up high-tech spacesuits jumping in futuristic humvees and heading out to the site. What they discover are the awe-inspiring creations of another race. What they bring back to the ship is what they realize may kill their own.
The first half of Prometheus could be easily mistaken for Steven Spielberg's Alien a sense of wonder glowing from every frame not too unlike Close Encounters. Scott takes full advantage of his fictional settings and imbues them with a reality that makes them even more tantalizing. He shoots the vistas of space and the alien planet like National Geographic porn and savors the interior moments on board the Prometheus full of hologram maps sleeping pods and do-it-yourself surgery modules with the same attention. Prometheus is beautiful shot in immersive 3D that never dampers Dariusz Wolski's sharp photography. Scott's direction seems less interested in the run-or-die scenario set up in the latter half of the film but the film maintains tension and mood from beginning to end. It all just gets a bit…bloodier.
Jon Spaihts' and Damon Lindelof's script doesn't do the performers any favors shuffling them to and fro between the ship and the alien construction without much room for development. Reveals are shoehorned in without much setup (one involving Theron's Vickers that's shockingly mishandled) but for the most part the ensemble is ready to chomp into the script's bigger picture conceits. Rapace is a physical performer capable of pulling off a grisly scene involving an alien some sharp objects and a painful procedure (sure to be the scene of the blockbuster season. Among the rest of the crew Fassbender's David stands out as the film's revelatory performance delivering a digestible ambiguity to his mechanical man that playfully toys with expectations from his first entrance. The creature effects in Prometheus will wow you but even Fassbender's smallest gesture can send the mind spinning. The power of his smile packs more of a punch than any facehugger.
Much like Lindelof's Lost Prometheus aims to explore the idea of asking questions and seeking answers and on Scott's scale it's a tremendous unexpected ride. A few ideas introduced to spur action fall to the way side in the logic department but with a clear mission and end point Prometheus works as a sweeping sci-fi that doesn't require choppy editing or endless explosions to keep us on the edge of our seats. Prometheus isn't too far off from the Alien xenomorphs: born from existing DNA of another creature the movie breaks out as its own beast. And it's wilder than ever.
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